The problem with questions like that is who's answer are you going to accept? Most of the world sees the question as rhetorical. I obviously exist or you wouldn't have accosted me.

He was already missing not having them as he finished having them. That wasn't bittersweet. No, that was something different. Was it foreboding? I think it was foreboding. Was it?

Sometimes, just the inclination was enough. It was a reinforcement of his judgement in that he had a clue in what the hell he was doing. In that department at least. Plumbing needs

"A hand basket to hell please," I called out to the conductor. Who indicated he didn't have the time nor the inclination. I'd have to find some other way to pay my way further. Ale

Was this a get out of my own way situation? Or was I the first me here, for now? The situation seemed familiar in everything but the particulars. There was the victim. My mother's

Since there was a temporal aspect involved Prof. Loomis had to wonder if they were looking at the cause or of a symptom that she might have already fixed in this way in the future.

By the time anybody thought to look at the data the data had already shown signs of having been affected by something similar to the damage that was being suggested it might have.

As the decades wore on, the colonists had to finally admit that there did see to be some truth to the indigenous superstitions about certain rains. Pregnancy rates did take a sharp

I had waited too long. The rains were upon us. Even if we could get the house staff to forgo their superstitions the roads will be washed out. Nobody ventured out if the Rain Gods

it seemed like a good as time as any to let her true form emerge. She couldn't say how she did it but suddenly she broke through their clutches. Her glory pulverized everybody near

I was going to have to venture outside. We were running out of provisions. Who wasn't? No time like the present. I went to the window to peek through the blinds. Where were they?

It was great having an internationally famous action movie star as a cousin. It really is. Until it is your birthday and she can’t be there with you because she’s winning an Oscar.

, a much cleaner alleyway than he had seen in the old town, an alleyway in which even Mary Tyler Moore would be proud to toss her tam-o-shanter. Here, even the rats washed their

small crowd of chefs, who briefly discussed adding the ticking bomb to the soup before dispersing to Jerome's cafe to do so. This disarmed the bomb, but the protesters threw the

seems the world is not quite ready for our Mulch Studded Goat Cheese, according to early product testing. We like to think of it more as art, anyway. It becomes performance art if

weather friend only. Well, if Col. Danders needed fowl weather to be helpful then fowl weather he shall have. "Mitch, you used to date an Amazonian butterfly didn't you?" The plan

On the other side of Vending Machine 17 wer several cases of a beer simply known as #17. The collector had responded to an ad in the back of an UTNE Reader & it was there by dawn.

in French. Gomez sparked up, kissed her fingers and set off to kill the flowers with Pugsley pulling his black hearse wagon behind him. Morticia watched Wednesday's hate filled

a total hoax, and sued us for each day they missed tanning. The judge decided, in our favor, that they were not paid for tanning days, just for being tan, which they could easily

called my boyfriend, Sigfried. "Hey Hon, I think I've been outed in West Virginia. Heard anything on the news?" There was silence on his end of the line. That's when I knew that